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Police found a dead newborn boy inside a trash can in Dutch Kills Playground in Queens on Saturday. Officials found the unresponsive infant wrapped in a plastic bag near 36 Avenue and Crescent Street around 10:48 a.m. The baby was in cardiac arrest, according to Associated Press.

A man is dead after he was struck by a stair that fell off a fire escape of a seventh story apartment in SoHo Friday afternoon, police said Saturday. The incident happened on Howard Street at Broadway in SoHo, near Little Italy, police confirmed around 1:40 p.m. The stair came loose when an engineer, hired by the building owner to inspect the building, stepped onto the fire escape.

A man was killed after he crashed his car into a supermarket in Queens early Saturday. Authorities received a call about a single vehicle collision in front of a Stop & Shop Supermarket on Union Turnpike near Woodhaven Blvd. in Forest Hills. The 21-year-old driver was found unconscious and unresponsive. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. His identity has not been released pending family notification.

Police are asking for the public's help to find the driver who hit a person in a motorized wheelchair and then drove off. The crash happened just before 6 p.m. Friday around Vulcan Street near the GM plant.

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with harassment in connection to an investigation into a possible threat at the Berlin Central School District. Authorities say some kids were talking at lunch at Berlin High School on Thursday. They say the boy said something inappropriate about the Florida school shooting and the comment ended up on Snapchat. After seeing the post, another student went to school leadership and police were notified.

Two men suffered injuries in a stabbing on the 100 block of Dudley Street on Thursday, according to the Syracuse Police Department. Police said they are looking for at least one suspect in the stabbing.

Police say two men posing as cops robbed a Brooklyn home at gunpoint. It happened around 5 p.m. back on Jan. 26 near Hale and Ridgewood avenues in Cyrpess Hills. Investigators say the men forced their way into the home through a back entrance, pulled out a gun and said they were with the police. They then tied up several people inside before making off with $1,450 in property, police said

Two people are hurt in a shooting and stabbing on the South Side of Syracuse. 911 reports indicate that officers responded to a shots-fired call at around 9:20 pm Monday night on Midland Avenue near West Newell Street.. They found one man shot and another stabbed on Both victims are in their 20's. Only one of the victims was sent to Upstate Hospital. Police are reportedly looking for two suspects.

Letter sent to Donald Trump Jr.'s apartment containing unidentified white powder, NYPD says, and opened by his wife; she and two others were decontaminated by firefighters at the scene. Police and Secret Service are investigating.

A Livingston County man is facing arson charges after police say he intentionally started a fire in the bathroom of Walmart in Geneseo. Jacob Hicks, 37, of Portage, was arrested and charged with attempted arson in the second degree after he allegedly started the fire

Even when the Brooklyn neighborhood of Prospect Lefferts Gardens was known as Flatbush years ago and the city was in the midst of a crime wave, Marie Reid didn’t feel the need to look behind her back while walking to her home.

A 48-year-old woman was killed in a fire in Woodhaven, Queens late Thursday night. Firefighters put out the flames on 102 Street and found Ines Parra unconscious on the second floor. She was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.